Captain America 2 now filming

Black Widow/Scarlett Johanson appearing

March 2013: Scarlett Johansson, doing promo duties on TV for her Broadway play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, mentioned she will be appearing in Captain America 2, and was looking forward to donning Black Widow again.

Feb 3, 2013: Emily vanCamp is slated for Captain America Winter Soldier, and it looks certain Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow will also make an appearance.

Interview Scarlett Johansson

Oct 2012: According to Deadline Hollywood, the following actresses are being talked to about a role in the Captain America: Winter Soldier sequel.

Deadline also says Scarlett Johannson (as Black Widow) will be in the film being directed by Joe and Anthony Russo.

Aug 17, 2012: Robert Pattinson and Scarlett Johansson are scheduled to appear together in Hate Mail. The film is also to include Philip Seymour Hoffman in the cast.

June 2012: Johansson is slated to appear in Marvel Studios Nick Fury film.

June 5, 2012:Iron Man 3 has started production and is being directed by Shane Black (he of Lethal Weapon and Long Kiss Goodnight), Iron Man 3 features Robert Downey Jr. (of course), Scarlett Johansson (returning as Black Widow), Gwyneth Paltrow and Don Cheadle. The completed Iron Man 3 is due to appear in cinemas May 3, 2013.

Johansson's current films in production are: Hitchcock (as Janet Leigh), Don Jon's Addiction, and Under the Skin.

Scarlett Johansson Vanity Fair

Speculated Black Widow origin movie

Scarlett Johansson has been talking in celebrity press interviews about a proposed Black Widow origin movie (the idea was first mentioned in the press in February 2011), and though the Johansson film is only a tentative possibility at this point, there are a list of movies coming from Marvel Studios that do have official production dates, like: Iron Man 3, Thor 2, Hulk 2, etc. (See the whole list of Marvel Studios coming films on The Avengers page) With the combined force of the Avenger's boxoffice, and the strong audience response to the Black Widow character from Iron Man 2, it seems inevitable Johansson will get back into the black hero suit.

The Avengers Natasha Romanoff

"Though her costume was unforgivingly unbreathable and she spent months training to perform in it, Johansson said she’d wear it again in a second to tell the story of Black Widow.

“I love her origin story. I think it’s just such a riveting one,” she said. “It’s just steeped in history and the richness to shoot in Russia, perhaps. ... I hope that the fans’ voice is loud enough and they want to see a Widow origin story, I know Marvel would be happy to entertain that. We’ve spoken a lot about it.”

...“You see a little bit about how Natasha joined and it’s not that she’s fighting for the greater good of humanity,” the actress said. “She was almost salvaged by S.H.I.E.L.D. and so she’s loyal to that group, to that agency, but only as sort of paid debt.”